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Salt Lake City, Utah gets filled every winter with smog each Winter season caused by an inversion, where a layer of warmer air will trap and hold down the cold air in the valley, trapping any pollution from escaping.
From up high, you can see this layer. This is the smog being illuminated on a clear night by the cit...

The air is actually a lot better today than it has been in the last few days, which is pretty scary considering how bad it looks. Salt Lake, Ogden and Logan have had the worst air in the country for the last few days.
I'll try and come back up to Ensign peak when the air is clear to shoot a comparison photo. In the me...

This series of panoramas was taken above Salt Lake City during a &quot;red air&quot; inversion day. During inversion events like this, a layer of high warm air traps cold air into the valley. The fog and clouds mix with the high levels of pollution to create unhealth, toxic air pollution levels in the valley.

This series of panoramas was taken above Salt Lake City during a &quot;red air&quot; inversion day. During inversion events like this, a layer of high warm air traps cold air into the valley. The fog and clouds mix with the high levels of pollution to create unhealth, toxic air pollution levels in the valley.

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This series of panoramas was taken above Salt Lake City during a &quot;red air&quot; inversion day. During inversion events like this, a layer of high warm air traps cold air into the valley. The fog and clouds mix with the high levels of pollution to create unhealth, toxic air pollution levels in the valley.